I don't go to the theatre very often but watched MIDWAY today and it was pretty great, not exactly Saving Private Ryan great, but pretty darn good nonetheless.
@mypeez : Thanks for the memory! My dad took me to see the movie at the theater on Knoxville (I think it was called the Byerly Theater). The movie was in sensuround a sound gimmick to make you feel the attacks!
@jannn1959 : I heard about it having that as a sound effect, but didn't get to see it at the theater. Sort of a forerunner to Dolby. en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Sensurround Funny, I tracked down a copy of Rollcoaster on DVD thinking it was the first movie released in Dolby Surround - turned out it was Sensurround too. That one I did get to see at the movies.
@cjsummers : Yes, yes, yes!!!! Before we even stood up (granted, it takes my dad a while to stand up) I leaned over and said "excuse me...dedicated to the Japanese soldiers? **** them".
Agree, Eastwood did it correctly with "Letters from Iwo Jima" and "Flags of our Fathers". Two separate movies from each side's perspective of the battle. It would have been better to let the credits roll without any commentary - a good film could have accomplished that on its own. Sorry but Roland Emmerich's direction and the CGI strikes me too much as Michael Bay's 2001 remake of Pearl Harbor rather than Saving Private Ryan.
